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Information on this series is available on Universal Japan's site. Michael Cuscuna appears to be involved. Here is the link: http://www.universal-music.co.jp/jazz/prestige7000. And here is the link for the New Jazz series: http://www.universal-music.co.jp/jazz/prestige-newjazz

Freddie McCoy Prestige years Carlos Garnett Muse years Cannonball Adderley - unreissued Capitol years Dave Bailey - Epic years properly remastered (Sony Japan is starting a reissue campaign in February and the Charlie Rouse and Curtis Fuller Epics have been announced, hopefully the Bailey's will be part of a future wave - for those interested in what else is forthcoming you can search by the catalog number SICP on HMV Japan).

Everything I have ordered from Mosaic (including purchases in the last few months) has come via Canada Post and I have never paid Customs on a Mosaic order.

I am really excited about this release. Michael Cuscuna hinted at this release in an email he sent me three years ago. I had given up hope. I would love a Carlos Garnett set but at the time MC said it was unlikely to happen. The Muse catalog is now under the control of SLG, LLC which is the Savoy Label Group. I wonder if any Savoy projects will be forthcoming?

Done It Again is very good. It was reissued by Get On Down in a mini-LP sleeve in 2011.

Dusty Groove (in partnership with Real Gone Music) has three more reissues from the Concord vaults scheduled for July 2: Ahmed Abdul Malik - Spellbound, Stan Hunter & Sonny Fortune - Trip On The Strip and George Braith - Musart. To my knowledge, none of these have been on CD before.

When Dusty Groove first posted their wave of Concord releases which also includes the Wayne Henderson produced Allspice and Larry Williams, Ahmed Abdul-Malik's Spellbound was part of the batch. Unfortunately, they removed it after a week. I hope it is still forthcoming and there is no issue with the master tapes.

JLH, I will buy anything you reissue as the first three were fantastic but I would also like to know if the expanded Joe Daley is still going to happen.

Dusty Groove and Real Gone teamed up to reissue these albums. They are remastered from the original tapes and they sound great but the music is inconsistent. The Steig didn't move me but the Gene Harris twofer is fantastic. As far has Dusty Groove peddling punch hole / promo copies I have been fine with that especially in the case of the OJC stuff because most of them are priced at 3.99 or 4.99.

Dusty Groove now has it for sale ($129.99): http://www.dustygroove.com/item.php?id=m8bzrjmygq&ref=index.php Individual tracks can be downloaded on iTunes or you can download the whole package on iTunes for more than DG is selling the physical item.

I have been hoping that Sony Legacy would do one of their Pop Market Complete Albums collections of this material. A Mosaic would be fine as well.

Hip O Select / Verve Select is releasing Volume 2 of the Clifford Brown Master Takes on Oct 22nd. No description on amazon as yet but here is the link anyway: http://www.amazon.com/Emarcy-Master-Takes-Clifford-Brown/dp/B0094GW93W/ref=sr_1_1?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1347551620&sr=1-1&keywords=clifford+brown

Warner Japan have announced the third and fourth series to be released in August and September. http://wmg.jp/jazz1000/index_03.html

In adiition to Gleam, Dusty Groove list the following as forthcoming from Wounded Bird: Eleventh House - Level One Lighthouse - Lighthouse Michael Urbaniak - Fusion III

I think the Rod Levitt would be an excellent choice. It may not be a five star album but it's very good and very interesting and to my knowledge has never been issued completely on CD.

Wounded Bird is reissuing the very rare Freddie Hubbard album "Gleam" (originally released on CBS Japan). Release date is June 12 and it's the first CD release. http://www.discogs.com/Freddie-Hubbard-Gleam/release/1833534 http://www.amazon.com/Gleam-Freddie-Hubbard/dp/B007Y57OVC/ref=sr_1_1?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1335809132&sr=1-1

1,000 Yen price point suggests plastic jewel cases.

I saw after I posted that the Adderley had been reissued but I gave up on Collectables years ago. I don't have a lot of these titles on CD so I am happy that they're getting decent releases. On the link I posted there are placeholders for a third and fourth series of releases which will hopefully contain the Grassella Oliphant albums as, again, the Collectables edition was weak and it was the last straw for me.

For anyone interested, on April 25th Warner Japan will reissue 50 Atlantic / Vortex / Embryo Catalog titles as part of the Jazz Best Collection and all will be remastered in 24 bit. Some of these titles were previously reissued by Collectables and they can now go in the garbage where they belong (IMO). There will be a second batch of 50 on May 23rd. The highlight for me is Nat Adderley's Autobiography (first CD issue). Here is the link: http://wmg.jp/jazz1000/

I noticed on Amazon that Concord is planning three more OJC Remasters for May 15: Bill Evans Moonbeams, Monk's Misterioso and Jazz at Massey Hall and a Stax remaster of Albert King's I'll Play The Blues For You. I am not sure why they wouldn't do Joe Alexander's Blue Jubilee or Ahmed Abdul-Malik's Spellbound or the John Wright's that Fantasy didn't get around to doing. It seems if you piggyback an unkown title with an Evans and Monk reissue people would take a chance. I would but maybe I am the exception.

Jonathan, thank you for taking the time to search out the Gene Shaw material. But I think the general discussion as been about Shaw's Carnival Sketches and to a lesser extent Debut In Blues. While I like Breakthrough, it is my least favorite of the three. But still essential for Shaw's trumpet playing.

JLH - I am not sure if I could tell the difference between peronal fave and stellar performance. I am not a jazz expert just a big fan and my favourites are what I listen to the most (obviously) so they become stellar through familarity (does that make any sense?) The more I listen to Carnival Skecthes or Bill Holman's Big Band the more I hear the little things that make a jazz record shine. I listen to these records and the others mentioned in my original post as much as I listen to Bill Evans Sunday At The Village Vanguard, Eric Dolphy's Out To Lunch or Mike Westbrook's Celebration. For me they are all great jazz records that I really enjoy and hopefully others think they are stellar so you can search them out, make a favorable decision and reissue them.

I have the Dusty Groove Breakthrough reissue which is why I excluded it although it is now out of print as well. I feel Debut in Blues and Carnival Sketches are beyond excellent and Shaw's playing on Sketches is fantastic. One of my favourite LPs and one I hope will get reissued someday.

Some personal faves that I would like to see get proper CD reissues include Denny Zeitlin's Live At The Trident, Gene Shaw's Argo albums especially Debut In Blues and Carnival Sketches, Bill Holman's Great Big Band on Capitol and Harold Vick's Strata East album Don't Look Back. And the Dave Bailey Epic's! I haven't been satisfied with any CD version of these albums. But I will buy whatever you put out based on the quality of the Dixon and Hemphill releases.

I spoke with MC a couple of years back about a Horace Silver Silver N' Select. He said they were interested but it would need to be four CD's due to The Music of the Spheres being 2LPs and I took that to mean "we would like to but the fourth CD is an issue from a pricing perspective". At one point he also hinted at wanting to do the Gene Shaw Argo's as well as some of the Muse / Savoy material (same owner) that I requested which included Woody Shaw. A Woody Shaw Muse box would be fantastic and totally essential.